What about Motorola? [LWN.net]

What about Motorola?

Posted Jan 28, 2008 17:24 UTC (Mon) by ajross (subscriber, #4563)
Parent article: Nokia to acquire Trolltech

One has to wonder where this leaves Motorola, who to date have been the only manufacturer to
commit to Qt in any serious way in the mobile world (E680, A780, A900, ROKR, RAZR2, some
others I'm sure).   Obviously they could fork and continue to use the GPL verison, but they
can't be pleased with a core part of the environment being owned by a competitor.

I wonder how much of this was done less to power a new platform for Nokia's phones than to
muck with the platform of one of its rivals?

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What about Motorola?

Posted Jan 28, 2008 18:34 UTC (Mon) by tetromino (subscriber, #33846) [Link]

Nokia will switch to Qt on its maemos. Motorola will switch to Gtk on its razrs. Thus the
balance of the force will be restored.

What about Motorola?

Posted Jan 29, 2008 8:29 UTC (Tue) by alankila (subscriber, #47141) [Link]

Perhaps this is what "acceleration of its cross-platform strategy" (or whatever it was again)
meant. It is presumably world domination, no company should settle for less.